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El L. CASE. Stove-Pipe Joint.

No. 217,059. Patented July 1, 1879.

, H QHI U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN L. CASE, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOVE-PIPE JOINTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0."217,059, dated July 1, 1879; application filed April lfi, 1879.

To all whom it may concern f Be it known that I, EDWIN LUMAN CASE, of Denver, in the State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stove- Pipe Joints; and I hereby declare the following to ma full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figurel is a perspective view of the coupling. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view.

The object of my invention is to provide a joint for stove'pipes which can be readily and rapidly put together, and then secured so it cannot be part-ed by accident and my invention consists in riveting to one end of the pipe a flanged cast ring provided with an enlarged end for the reception of the end of the other joint of pipe. This flanged ring is provided with set-screws to secure the pipe by means of proper holes.

In order that those skilled in the art may make-and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried it out.

In the said drawings, A B represent the lengths of pipe to be joined, and G is a castmetal flanged ring to be fastened to pipe A by means of rivets a passing through proper holes. The projecting rim 1) is made of a proper size to snugly fit over the end of pipe B, and its end rests against the shoulder d.

Two screw holes, 2' z", pass through the rim 7),

The stove pipe A, provided with holes for the reception ofrivcts a a, and flanged casting 0, provided with the shoulder (l and screwholes z i, in combination with stove pipe B, provided with holes a n, and the setscrews D D, all constructed to operate as and for the purpose set forth.

ED WIN LUMAN CASE.

Witnesses PETER WINNE, It. H. MOMANN. 

